Questions of unity hang over New Democracy party congress 

[Illustration by Filippos Avramidis]

The ruling New Democracy enactment heads into its 16th legislature connected May 15-17, facing renewed questions implicit interior unity aft Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned that some ministers similar to run successful a “protected environment” alternatively than afloat support authorities policy.

The parliamentary radical gathering past week, initially viewed arsenic perchance turbulent, ended without unfastened confrontation arsenic lawmakers, including interior critics, lowered tensions. But Mitsotakis’ remarks were widely interpreted arsenic directed astatine Defense Minister Nikos Dendias, who has mostly avoided engagement successful broader governmental disputes while focusing connected his ministry.

The legislature carries added value due to the fact that it is expected to specify the governing party’s electoral strategy aft 7 years successful powerfulness and amid signs of governmental fatigue. Government officials accidental Mitsotakis aims to task unity earlier elections while emphasizing the government’s grounds and a broader vision for Greece done 2030.

Attention is besides expected to absorption connected elder enactment figures viewed arsenic imaginable successors successful a post-Mitsotakis era, including Dendias, Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis and Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis, alongside right-wing enactment voices Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis.

Former premier curate Kostas Karamanlis will not be the congress, though some sides look determined to debar a confrontation contempt progressively abstracted governmental trajectories for now.